Quotes 28 Apr 18

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.--Benito Mussolini, _The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism_ (1932) Mencken

Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state. -- Mussolini

Islam, however, is a religion that sees its duty and commitment to form an Islamic state. Islam came to reform society and to form a nation and government. Its mandate is the reform of the whole world . . . It cannot be without a law of jihad. While the scope of Christianity is extremely limited, that of Islam is extremely wide . . . It has laws which govern the society, economic laws and political laws. It came to organize a state, to organize a government. Once this is done, how can it remain without an army? -- the Ayatollah Morteza Mutahhari, in _Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and its Legitimacy in the Quran_, http://al-islam.org/short/jihad/1.htm

 If we look closely, we see that in Christianity there is no jihad because it has nothing at all. By which I mean that there is no Christian structure of society, no Christian legal system, and no Christian rules as to how a society is to be formed, for these to contain the laws of jihad. There is no substance in Christianity; it contains no more than a few moral teachings … Islam however is a religion that sees its duty and commitment to form an Islamic state. Islam came to reform society and to form a nation and government. Its mandate is the reform of the whole world. Such a religion cannot be indifferent. It cannot be without a law of jihad. It came to organize a state, to organize a government. Once this is done, how can it remain without an army? How can it be without a law of jihad? - (Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari, JIHAD: the Holy War of Islam and its legitimacy in the Quran.. Translated by Mohammad Slaman Tawhidi (Tehran: Islamic Propagation Organization, 1985. http:/www.al-islam. org./jihad/short (Nov 2001).